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ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE FISHES OE 

 FRANKLIN. COUNTY OHIO. 



By R. C. Osburn and E. B. Williamson. 



In our paper on the Fishes of Franklin County, 

 published in last year's proceedings of the Academy, 

 ( 1898 ) we described as new. a species of Etheostoma 

 under the name sciotense. Since that description was 

 printed. Dr. Evermann, Ichthyologist to the U. S. 

 Fish Commission, has compared the types of 

 Etheostoma sciotense and E. tippecanoe Jordan and 

 Evermann. and he writes that the two are identical, 

 the squamation of the anterior dorsal region being 

 the same in both, and the differences in coloration 

 only such as may be explained by age, sex and 

 season. Etheostoma tippecanoe has, so far, been 

 recorded only from the Tippecanoe River, Indiana, 

 and, while Dr. Evermann is doubtless correct in his 

 decision, tippecanoe and sciotense show some interest- 

 ing differences both in the arrangement and the color 

 of markings. 



Specimens of minnows, number 36, 37 and 38, 

 Notropis cayuga, N. blennius and N. spF, have been 

 examined by Dr. Chas H. Gilbert, and our identifica- 

 tion of cayuga and blennius confirmed. Notropis 

 sp? is Notropis shumardi. (Gir). Our specimens 

 agree very well with Girard's figure of this species in 

 Girard's " Fishes "( Part IV. Explorations and Surveys 

 for a Railroad route from the Mississippi River to the 

 Pacific Ocean, Washington, 1858), Plate LVII, figs. 

 1-4. 



During the spring of 1898 the enbankment con- 

 fining the waters of Mirror Lake on the Ohio State 

 University campus was broken by a freshet and 



